Against Julian 6.7.18

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By the nature of things, parents cannot be shown to hand on what they are believed to have lost. If they hand it on, they have not lost it.

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Latin

Per rerum naturam fieri non posse, ut illud probentur tradere parentes, quo caruisse creduntur. Quod si tradunt - inquis - non amiserunt

Non eos potuisse in posteros transmittere, quod ipsi minime habuerunt

About this text

Earlier four-book work to Turbantius, surviving as excerpts arranged by Augustine’s witness. Latin source text is on each section when recovered.

English follows Julian’s words as Augustine excerpts them in Against Julian. This is not a recovered complete To Turbantius.

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Copy-text Augustine, Against Julian (Latin · Excerpts arranged by Augustine’s books)

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